Sunday, June 27, 2010

Conscious Computing

Here at #Foo10, Sara has just pointed out that, for the first time she can remember, people are sitting in sessions, taking notes on notepads, laptops closed. Laptops are out of sight. It feels different. That’s another option. We can use technology to help enable Conscious Computing, or we can find it on our own, through attending to how we feel.

How do we usher in an era of Conscious Computing? What tools, technologies, and techniques will it take for personal technologies to become prosthetics of our full human potential?

In educational computing, even as we've still got, persistent, infuriating problems with basic access, the need to address the issues Linda writes about is increasing, steeply.